Sydney Scott

Sydney Scott
  • Doctoral Student - Joint Marketing and Psychology Degree Program

Contact Information

  • office Address:

    Department of Psychology
    3720 Walnut Street
    Solomon Lab Building
    Philadelphia, PA 19104-6241

Research Interests: judgment and decision making, morality and consumption, preference for natural products

Links: CV, Personal Website

Overview

Sydney Scott is a fourth-year doctoral student in the joint Ph.D. program between marketing and psychology. She is broadly interested in morality and consumption and judgment and decision making, and her dissertation focuses on preferences for natural products (e.g., organic food, alternative medicines, non-GMO products). Specifically, her dissertation examines (1) what causes the substantial variation in preferences for natural products across situations and domains, and (2) the interplay between moral intuitions and risk-benefit analysis in attitudes towards biotechnology.

 Sydney graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology in 2012.

 

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Past Courses

  • PSYC0001 - Intro to Psychology

    This course provides an introduction to the basic topics of psychology including our three major areas of distribution: the biological basis of behavior, the cognitive basis of behavior, and individual and group bases of behavior. Topics include, but are not limited to, neuropsychology, learning, cognition, development, disorder, personality, and social psychology.

Awards And Honors

  • NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2016 Description

    National Science Foundation grant for doctoral dissertation research.

  • Judith & William Bollinger Fellowship, 2016 Description

    Award for one student engaged in interdisciplinary research between Wharton and another school in the University

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Latest Research

Sydney Scott, Paul Rozin, Deborah Small (2020), Consumers Prefer “Natural” More for Preventatives than for Curatives, Journal of Consumer Research, 47 (), pp. 454-471.
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How Forced Labor Scrutiny Shapes Supply Chain Transparency

A study co-authored by Wharton’s Sandra Schafhäutle examines why companies choose to hide their names in public shipping data.…Read More

Knowledge @ Wharton - 2026/06/23
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Awards and Honors

NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant 2016
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